"We were just searching databases, and it turned up".
But searching databases and processing transactions -- computers have been doing that for decades.
By searching databases, contacting experts and test manufacturers, we identified 75 relevant studies.
Qualifications: Interest in topic, attention to detail, well organized, proficient in searching databases, able to work well and efficiently independently.
The Himalayas will gradually take over the task of searching databases for fares, flight availability and schedules, while mainframes continue to handle booking and ticketing.
But other early adopters could include a wide range of companies eager to take advantage of Itanium's processing speed for applications like encrypting Internet traffic and searching databases for useful information about competitors or customers.
Management information systems, originally called data processing systems, provided early ideas from which various computer science concepts such as sorting, searching, databases, information retrieval, and graphical user interfaces evolved.
During an assessment, agents may use a limited set of techniques, including searching databases about targets, conducting surveillance of their movements and sending a confidential informant to an organization's meetings.
The genes were identified by searching databases including Hereditary Hearing Loss Homepage, the Human Genome Mutation Database (HGMD), Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) and most recent peer-reviewed publications related to the genetics of deafness.
A Home Office paper summarising the consultation said respondents "welcomed the ability to reduce the threshold, including to the extent of allowing for the taking of fingerprints, DNA and footwear impressions for non-recordable offenses for the purpose of offender identification and searching databases".
In addition to Java-based chat, e-mail and video-game programs like those already popular in Japan, the AppStream technology should provide cell-phone users with continuous networked services-like scrolling sports scores or stock prices-and richer interactive interfaces for shopping or searching databases over the Web.
